Development roundup: 500+ distros, and none of them...
Submitted by srlinuxx on Mon, 03/05/2007 - 15:25.
We're in the 21st century. OK, you have already noticed that, haven't you?
We're having more than 500 distros. We call this "freedom".
Yet we have less and less time. This also means "less time to tweak our systems", "less time to fix them when an update breaks them", "less time to pray the next release number won't break everything that worked".
I have now established some clear goals for the upcoming months, and I am suddenly realizing none of the distros of choice are fulfilling all of them!
re: 500 Distros
Nice article - good summary.
Too many linux fanboy's tout the quantity over quality argument like doting parents giving their "slow child" a "A" for effort when the reality is it's "C-" at best for results (even 500 monkeys pounding on typewriters are bound to spew out a legible sentence now and again).
As I've stated before, linux would do much better without 500 distro teams repeating 95% of each other teams works. It's ironic that open source has come to mean "do your own thing your own way" instead of the ultimate example of shared collaborative teamwork.